1. ARRANGE YOURSELVES INTO GROUPS OF THREE YOU MAY MOVE THE DESKS TO FACILITATE THIS BETTER

2. READ THE POEM “SEVEN DAYS” BY GARY DUNFORD THEN AS A GROUP DISCUSS AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE TWO SHEETS PROVIDED.

3. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

4. “Do we have special duties, obligations, or responsibilities to other species or to nature in general?”

5. “Are there ethical principles that constrain how we use resources or modify our environment?” ___________________

6. “How are our obligations and responsibilities to nature weighed against human values and interests?” __________________

7. ARE YOU A UNIVERSALIST? RELATIVIST? NIHILIST? UTILITARIAN?

8. UNIVERSALIST – Plato; right and wrong, unchanging, eternal; God ; reason; knowledge

9. RELATIVIST – no absolute rule regardless of circumstance

10. NIHILIST – world makes no sense at all

11. UTILITARIAN – an action is right that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people